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TRANSFIGURING MATTER – ICONS AS A PARADIGM OF CHRISTIAN ECOLOGY by Aidan Hart

A talk given in Oxford in 1998. It discusses how the making and use of icons reveals the Orthodox Church’s understanding of how we were intended to relate to the material world. The talk considers this using “the classical images of prophet, king and priest. Another way of expressing these roles is to say that we were created to be the poets, artists and musical conductors of the cosmos.”
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